Proceedings of the 12th International INQUA meeting on paleoseismology, active tectonic and archaeoseismology

The selected area is located along the Eastern Monferrato Arc (Northern Italy), located in the Po Valley, near the city of Alessandria (Fig. 1). The region is characterized by compressional kinematics and a low seismicity (Rovida et al., 2016; Frigerio et al., 2017); here we focus on Fault 10-Po2 (ITHACA Working Group, 2019), which is located about 8 km from the closest areas of this cluster zone. M E T H O D S The methodological workflow adopted in this research is illustrated in Figure 2. In the first step, following Moss and Ross (2011), our analysis focused on the parametrization of the faults. From the scientific literature we defined parameters such as fault kinematics, area and slip rate (Frigerio et al., 2007; Molli et al., 2010; Michetti et al., 2012; ITHACA Working Group, 2019), and calculated the earthquake maximum expected magnitude Mw Fig. 1: Localization of the Monferrato study area. In yellow are marked the potential suitable areas for hosting the National Waste Repository and dotted in red the fault analysed in this work.